Luca Criscuolo

Luca Criscuolo

Head of the Suspicious Transactions Directorate

Born in Florence on 13 February 1966, he graduated with honours in Law from LUISS - Guido Carli in Rome in March 1989.

He was hired by Banca d'Italia in 1991 and worked in the Banking and Financial Supervision Department, first in the regulatory sector, where he was responsible for the preparation of the consolidated banking act, then from 1995 to 2008 in the structure in charge of relations with the judiciary, investigative bodies and other authorities, administrative sanctioning procedures and regulations on the prevention of money laundering and usury.

In 2008, with the instruction of the Financial Intelligence Unit, he was appointed to the Division in charge of monitoring the legislation on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, inspection activities and relations with the judicial authorities. In 2020, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Regulatory and Institutional Relations Service, extending his expertise to international cooperation, analysis of aggregated data and relations with other FIUs.

He has carried out various consultancy and expert assignments on behalf of the judiciary and coordinated groups in charge of inspections. He has participated, as a speaker, in numerous conferences on banking and financial legislation and anti-money laundering; he has edited numerous publications on these subjects and a monograph on non-bank financial intermediaries and has held various teaching positions in universities.